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23. Mr Storey's Story 23. Mr Storey’s story Much about the crash of A16-97 remained inexplicable. As far as the public was concerned, privy only to Justice Lowe’s findings, the story was that the ‘machine stalled’. Whatever might be suspected, nothing had been said directly to suggest that the pilot had erred. Pilot error could be inferred. It could not be proved. No-one was required to believe that Flight Lieutenant Bob Hitchcock had been inadequately instructed in the dangerous characteristics of the new aircraft he was flying. It would not do for there to be a loss of confidence in the RAAF’s selection of prospective Hudson pilots or of its training regime. A more satisfactory deduction for the authorities — a deduction left for the public to make — was that an adequately trained and competent pilot had just made a fatal mistake. There might have been other contributory factors but none could be conclusively confirmed. Thus, how or why such a ‘miscalculation’ could have been made was left to the imagination. A delicate path had been constructed for the Air Court of Inquiry. Those whose responsibility it was to advise the Court about Bob Hitchcock’s competence had directed attention only to his most recent record. There was no hint of anything other than ‘average’ or ‘above average’ performance in the evaluations disclosed. But there was an economy of truth in providing only these assessments. There is no indication that Justice Lowe was made aware of Hitchcock’s misadventures as a young pilot officer, or of any later concerns about his flying. It may reasonably be supposed that his superiors judged that Hitchcock’s subsequent operational performance demonstrated that he had overcome the crisis of confidence in 1936. Four years on he was a different man. The exacting John Ryland had deemed him ‘thoroughly competent…slightly above average’ when he converted to Hudsons. ‘Not brilliant, but normal’ in absorbing instructions.1 What none of those who knew Hitchcock’s history would want was anything that could have led, as Sir George Jones was to put it years afterwards, to the realisation that there were those who thought ‘the man would never have been in the Service but for political influence’.2 In the absence of other evidence it was legitimate for Lowe to conclude that Hitchcock alone had been in control of A16-97 from the time it left Essendon to the moment it plunged into the ground in Duncan Cameron’s farm. But what if there were other testimony? One man who thought he could throw light on the accident was Herbert J. Storey, Headmaster of the Grenfell Street Trades School in Adelaide. In response to the war’s demand for skilled men, the trades school had been designated a Commonwealth Defence Training Centre. It offered Army technical training, RAAF basic training, and training in aircraft 1 Ryland’s testimony, 27 Aug. 1940, Air Court of Inquiry, NAA: A705, 32/10/2729. 2 AM Sir George Jones, interview, 14 Sept. 1977. 525 Ten Journeys to Cameron's Farm and munitions production. In co-operation with the Adelaide School of Mines, the Trades School had undertaken to train 500 fitters at £15 per head for a four- month course.3 Storey’s responsibilities took him around the state to Port Pirie, Whyalla, and other country towns. On these trips he would often be flown in RAAF aircraft. On August 31, Storey had written to the Secretary of the Department of Air: Canberra Air Disaster Dear Sir, I forward for your information, a record of a conversation which took place in my office during a visit to this school by the late Minister for Air, Mr Fairbairn. I realise of course, that it is not evidence but it may throw some light on the Canberra air crash, perhaps by lending support to evidence at the Court of Enquiry or be of value in some other direction. Owing to some misunderstanding, Mr Fairbairn arrived at this school some 15 minutes ahead of Air-force officers who were to accompany him on an inspection of the R.A.A.F. activities. The interval was bridged by a quiet chat in my office. Mr Fairbairn told me something of his trip round Australia. (He was then on the final stage) and we discussed modern service aircraft. I asked him about the Hudson bombers of which I had been reading with interest. Mr Fairbairn stated ‘These machines have rather a nasty stalling characteristic. The combined effect of throttling back and dropping the flaps, preparatory to landing, can land you in a whole heap of bother. They are very sensitive, at this stage, to varying air pressures and, from what I have been told, a pilot coming in to land can find himself, suddenly and without warning, in a machine that is no longer air-borne, heading straight for the ground. I don’t know much about them yet but, as I will be handing my own machine in when I arrive in Melbourne; you know, we are commandeering all private machines and mine can not be excepted, I will soon know all about them. I will be using a Hudson for my departmental travelling and on every possible occasion I’ll practise landings and find out more about this stalling trick. Personally, I think it is only a matter of handling your throttle wisely.’ The conversation closed on the arrival of several R.A.A.F. staff officers and an inspection was then made of this school. 3 Air Board Agenda 2677, [Jan. 1940], NAA: A4181, 17; The Advertiser, 9 July 1940. 526 23. Mr Storey’s story yours faithfully H. J Storey H. J. Storey (Headmaster)4 As if to emphasise his sense that he thought he was conveying something important, Storey added at the foot of the letter he had typed with his own hands ‘/HJS (not dictated)’. This letter, filed in a bundle of mostly routine departmental correspondence, adjacent to copies of papers relating to the Lowe inquiry, was extraordinary in its implications. There was no trace of Herbert Storey’s reported conversation with the late Minister for Air in any of the evidence or conclusions of the Air Force Court of Inquiry. No-one, it seems, contacted him to test his credibility or to see if there was anything further he could contribute. The only discernible response in the files was sent on 9 September 1940: Dear Sir, I desire to thank you for your letter of 31st August, 1940, forwarding a record of a conversation which took place in your office during a visit to your school by the late Minister for Air, the Hon. J. V. Fairbairn. I would inform you that the stalling characteristics of Lockheed Hudson aircraft are well known and pilots are fully instructed in regard thereto, when undergoing conversion courses for this type of aircraft. A special Air Force Court of Inquiry, presided over by his Honour, Judge Lowe, was constituted to inquire into the accident at Canberra, and the cause or causes thereof. You may be assured that the points brought to notice by you were investigated closely by the Court. Yours faithfully PEC (M. C. Langslow), a SECRETARY5 4 ‘Air Force Court of Inquiry under Air Force Courts of Inquiry Regulations into accident to Air Force Hudson Aircraft at Canberra on 13/8/1940 (A16-97)’, NAA: A705, 32/10/2729/28–9. Tink, Air Disaster, pp.213, 220, has Fairbairn speak of ‘handling your throttles wisely’ which would have been true but was not what Storey wrote. 5 The file copy in the Department of Defence Air Services Branch General Correspondence in Melbourne (NAA: A705, 32/10/2729/27) bears the initials of the Assistant Secretary of the Department, (Major) Patrick (‘Johnnie’) Eugene Coleman. Some years after I discovered Storey’s letter and the reply, I told the aviation journalist Frank Cranston about it. In 1990 the Defence Department Air Force Office, under the impression 527 Ten Journeys to Cameron's Farm Both the wording and the timing of the official reply were notable. Storey’s letter had been written on a Sunday, four days after Mr Justice Lowe convened his first hearing in Melbourne. The last day of hearings, also in Melbourne, was three days later. The Court had re-convened in the afternoon of Tuesday, September 3, to hear additional evidence ‘with regard to the management of the aeroplane’. The departmental response to Storey was dated September 9, four days after Lowe completed his report, with the assistance of the Inquiry registrar, James Davoren. The report was signed and sent to the Governor- General on September 5. If Storey had paid the threepenny surcharge for airmail delivery from Adelaide there would have been time for his letter to be brought to the notice of Arthur Dean, counsel assisting the Inquiry. Time as well for its contents to be intimated to senior officers and ministers before Lowe concluded his work. Even had the letter been carried from Adelaide on The Overland overnight train service it might still have arrived in time to be assimilated by the Inquiry.6 In fact the letter was processed by the Defence (RAAF) Central Registry on Monday, September 2. The file on which the letter was eventually placed appears to have been forwarded to the head of the legal branch, Wing Commander Fred Knight, on August 30. From Knight it was sent to ‘S A B’ (Secretary Air Board) the next day. It may be surmised that, in the normal course, a clerk from the central registry would have carried the letter to the Air Board Secretary’s office and attached it to the file.
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